ni
Portuguese, noun/ˈni/
ni is spelled N-I (2 letters) and appears 8.7 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 8,159th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ni is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “nu (the thirteenth letter of the Greek alphabet)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “nome da décima terceira letra do alfabeto grego”.
What does ni mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinenu (the thirteenth letter of the Greek alphabet)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. nome da décima terceira letra do alfabeto grego
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of ni
- nis plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ni?
- Brazil /ˈni/
- Portugal /ˈni/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ni
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ni in Portuguese?
ni appears 8.7 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).